Generic Company Place Holder SafeHouse Explorer USB Disk Encryption

The great thing about today's nearly universal connectivity is
how easy it is to share information, pictures and other material
with your business associates, friends and family. The bad thing
about it is how easy it is for strangers to get access to your
data. This is especially true when we carry so much on our USB
flash drives, DVDs, laptops and other portable media. SafeHouse
Explorer can secure your data on all media, protecting it from
unwanted prying eyes.

SafeHouse installs its own Explorer on any drive or media you
indicate. The SafeHouse Explorer uses Windows Explorer's familiar
branching tree structure and drag-and-drop functionality. However,
the folders (a.k.a. volumes) you create in SafeHouse Explorer are
password-protected and use 256-bit Twofish encryption. (For
stronger 448-bit encryption, you'll need to purchase the $60
Professional Edition.)

When creating a new volume, you have the option of having it
filled with random data to make it harder to break into. However,
that isn't recommended if you intend to e-mail it, because that
will make it more difficult to compress the volume to a smaller
size. Then, you copy or move your files to the volume, which can be
as large as 2,000 gigabytes and is seen as a separate drive letter
on both Windows and SafeHouse Explorer. The option of a Secure Move
completely destroys the original data (after copying it to the
SafeHouse volume), by overwriting it with random data, before
deleting. In that way, you have access to the secured information,
but hackers can't use any of the various recover schemes to extract
your data from its original location on your drive.

When SafeHouse Explorer is installed on portable media, such as
a USB flash drive, the data can be accessed on any computer into
which the media are plugged, without SafeHouse having to be
installed on the PC. But it doesn't leave any trail of that data on
the hosting computer. What's more, you can easily email secured
volumes, and the recipient will be able to open the files--after
you supply the password--without installing any software on their
systems. While the basics of SafeHouse Explorer are familiar and
straightforward, the support is better than many pricey, much more
complicated programs. On installation, you are given the option to
go directly to a series of helpful online videos on how the program
works.

SafeHouse also comes in a Personal Edition ($30) or the
abovementioned Professional Edition, both of which add more
functions and features, for greater protection and more
convenience. However, the free version provides good basic security
on its own for most average users.

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